Results for Children

ECW outcomes focus on access, equity and gender equality, continuity, quality learning, and safe and protective learning environments.

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1 and 3.
Access and
Continuity
2.
Strengthened Equity
and Gender Equality
4.
Quality Learning
and Skills
5.
Safe and Protective
Learning Environment

Beneficiary Outcomes 1 and 3

Access and Continuity

Ensuring that crisis-affected children are provided with continuous quality learning and stay in school until they complete their education are essential priority areas for ECW.

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Increased Access

96% of ECW-supported programmes in 2021 provided evidence of an increase in levels of access to education.

Increased Continuity

97% of ECW-supported programmes in 2021 showed increased survival, transition or completion of crisis-affected children and youth.

Improving Completion and Transition

70% of programmes (including COVID-19 grants) reported transition rates of 50% or higher to the formal education system after completion of accelerated action programmes, remedial classes or catch-up programmes. Completion rates are slightly higher, with 78% of programmes enabling 50% or more of the children to complete their programme, education level or grade.

Dedicated Funding to Increase Access and Continuity

The seven MYRPs developed in 2021 dedicated US$21 million to increasing access and continuity of education among crisis-affected children. The figure represents 29% of these MYRPs’ total seed fund budgets.

Stronger Focus on Early-Childhood and Secondary Education

The share of children reached with early-childhood education increased from 5% in 2019 to 9% in 2021, and the share of children reached under secondary education increased from 3% to 11% for the same period.

Progress Highlights–Access

Number of teachers and administrators recruited and/or financially supported since inception

Number of classrooms (including temporary learning spaces) built or rehabilitated since inception

Number of children/youth (aged 3–18) reached with non-formal education programmes since inception

COVID-19 Data

11 million (51% Girls) by 2021

Number of households in ECW-supported communities receiving cash transfers for education since inception

Progress Highlights–Continuity

Percentage of ECW-supported programmes with increased survival, transition or completion of crisis-affected children and youth

97%

(11 MYRPs, 26 FERs)

Number of children (aged 3–8 years) reached with early childhood education services since inception

COVID-19 Data

3.5 million (44% girls) by 2021

Percentage of children reached by education level

Number of children (aged 3–18) who received quality school feeding since inception

Percentage of ECW-supported programmes with increased survival, transition or completion of crisis-affected children and youth

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Mali, Peru, Somalia and Uganda

Beneficiary Outcome 2

Strengthened Equity and Gender Equality

Equity and gender equality in emergencies and protracted crises are at the forefront of ECW’s mandate. To fulfil its commitments on gender and inclusive education, ECW set ambitious targets of reaching 60% of girls and 10% of children with disabilities in all its investments.

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Changing social norms to address gender inequality

Of the MYRPs developed in 2021, 71% (5 out of 7) included a focus in their results frameworks on changing the social norms, attitudes and behaviours reinforcing gender inequality.

Reaching Children with Disabilities

ECW reached 34,191 children and adolescents with disabilities through active grants in 2021 (0.92% of all children reached).

Reaching forcibly displaced children

In 2021, ECW reached 1.1 million refugees (50% girls) and 412,000 IDPs (49% girls).

Supporting Girls' Education

Since inception, ECW has reached 3.3 million girls, representing 48.4% of the total children reached.

Progress Highlights

Percentage of ECW-supported programmes (having data) showing improvement vs. gender parity in access to education in targeted communities

92%

(6 MYRPs, 6 FERs)

Percentage and number of girls out of total children and youth reached by ECW since inception

COVID-19 Data

52% girls (16.2 million) by 2021

Percentage of women among teachers and administrators recruited/financially supported

*Percentage largely impacted by an Initial Investment (II) grant in Yemen that supported many more male teachers than female teachers. This project ended in 2019.

Percentage of children and youth with disabilities reached with ECW support (since the Fund's inception)

COVID-19 Data

0.2% children and youth by 2021

Beneficiary Outcome 4

Quality Learning and Skills

Education quality is the ultimate objective within the ECW results framework, ensuring that the education provided is of the highest standard to support quality learning outcomes.

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Promising Levels of Learning

The share of MYRP programmatic funding allocated to improve the quality of education and learning levels of children has steadily increased – from 14% in 2019 and 19% in 2020, to 22% in 2021.

Teacher Increased Knowledge and Capacity

ECW has strengthened teaching capacity across various topic areas. In 2021, 26,835 teachers (52 per cent female) demonstrated an increase in knowledge, skills and/or performance.

Measuring Learning Outcomes

The number of ECW-funded programmes with information on levels of academic learning is growing, especially for MYRPs. Measuring social-emotional learning remains a challenge.

Progress Highlights

Percentage of ECW-supported programmes (having data) with increased learning outcomes for crisis-affected children and youth

100%

(21 FERs, 9 MYRPs)

Number of children (aged 3-18) reached with individual learning materials inception

COVID-19 Data

1.98 million (46% girls) by 2021

Number of teachers and administrators trained since inception

COVID-19 Data

88,649 (56% female) by 2021

This includes only teachers/ administrators trained on COVID-19 in education related topics

Percentage of teachers trained per topic (2017-2021) including COVID-19 grants

Emergency preparedness, DRR, risk management
24%
Mental health and psycho-social support
27%
Gender
7%
Inclusion
5%
Subject knowledge, planning and pedagogy
26%
WASH
11%

Number of classrooms supported with materials to enhance the learning environment since inception

58,207

Beneficiary Outcome 5

Safe and Protective Learning Environment

ECW and its partners are working to ensure schools and learning spaces offer a safe, protective and healing environment to crisis-affected children.

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Lona

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Improved Safety and Protection

All programmes (100%) that measured safety and protection reported improvements at the outcome level in 2021. Since inception, the share of MYRP budget allocated to safety and protection is about 17.5% for all MYRPs.

Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction

A total of 47,375 (46% female) teachers and administrators have been trained on emergency preparedness, disaster risk reduction and risk management since inception.

Improved Mental Health and Psychosocial Support

Since inception, the number of teachers trained on mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) topics has doubled, reaching about 54,000 (48% female) by 2021. 13,803 learning spaces supported by ECW feature quality MHPSS activities.

Progress Highlights

Percentage of ECW-supported programmes (having data) with increased levels of safety and protection

100%

(7 MYRPs, 22 FERs)

Number of teachers/administrators trained on the importance of WASH (without COVID-19 training)

Number of ECW-supported learning spaces where a code of conduct exists, is enforced, and teachers and communities are trained/informed on its application

Number of ECW-supported learning spaces featuring mental health and psychosocial support activities for children

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